Gratitude
Stop! Drop!
Stop! Drop! Shut em down, open up shop! I found myself in the middle of my prayers yesterday with growing irritation in my body because I wanted to be done saying my prayers. What the ACTUAL fuck! With my mala in hand, mid prayer, I realized I was gathering, collecting, and holding onto irritation. It was another checkbox I had to fucking clear before I could mo…
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Happy Familyversary
I love this man whose heart reminds me of God's love. I love Anna whose joy fills the world. I love Madalyn whose tender care heals. I love Timothy whose enthusiasm catches fire. I love Grace whose thoughtfulness touches the weary. I love Isabella whose mind compels you to think for yourself. I love Rowan whose laugh fills the world with music. I love Lily whos…
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Balance
The Balance Fallacy
Sometimes our lives are filled with too many moving parts and our to do lists get longer and longer and we are dropping the ball on too many things and we just feel like giving up. And we feel out of balance. I think this feeling comes from a couple different places. 1. We believe the lies that there is such a thing as balance and we feel we are wrong once again…
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Gratitude
Finding Gratitude in the Hard Things
For the last 2 years I have spent most of the time following a keto diet. Sometimes it is really hard. I want to eat all of the ice cream. ALL. OF. THE. ICE. CREAM. Like a neurotic compulsion. Like life is no longer good or has a single good thing in it if I can't eat the ice cream. We all have areas like this. "I work so hard I should have this on…
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Baby steps
Staying Steady
As I evaluate where I am at in life, I realize that staying steady is an area that I can improve upon. I think many of us can. We create a plan and then we either meet success or resistance. Success: Yes, let's do more and go harder Resistance: Oh no, let's do more and go harder Have you ever been losing weight and you think, what if I cut out half of th…
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Year in Review
9 Days Left - What to Do
We have 9 days left to scramble to show we did something this first quarter. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY We have 9 days to plan and prepare for the second half of the year. So let's do a down and dirty (oh yeah baby!) brain dump: List out must dos This might be home maintenance, pay insurance for the year, register kids for school, etc... List out big goals List out e…
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Wholeness
What is Your Ugly Story?
What is your ugly story? Oh, I know you have one. We all have at least one. For some of us we collect ugly stories. My ugly story tells a moment in my life when I was lost and hurting and I did something that I feel deep guilt over. I have more than one, but that is the basic outline of EVERY singly one. What is the outline to your ugly story? We carry t…
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